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~Pippy Prekisterli 6.Jan.03 12:37 PM a Web browser
Domino Server 6.0 All Platforms


Through trying to get my pages 'HTML 4.01 Transitional' compliant I have discovered that browsers go into 'quirks' mode with Domino generated pages.

My pages that I am testing are 100% compliant according to http://validator.w3.org.

How then could my browser still tell me its in 'quirks' mode ?

The answer lies in the auto-generated doctype :
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

This is incorrect as it should read:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

As soon as I create a straight html page with this doctype my browser says its in :
'Standards compliance mode'

Why is this important ???
An excellent article has been written on this subject at: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/doctype/

To quote from this article:
"DOCTYPES are also essential to the proper rendering and functioning of web documents in compliant browsers like Mozilla, IE5/Mac, and IE6/Win"

Is there any way of changing what domino outputs, either via an .ini variable or other means, or are we stuck with this doctype ?

What if I want to output my pages as XHTML ?






Browser "Quirks" mode and DOCTYPE (~Pippy Prekiste... 6.Jan.03)
. . RE: Browser "Quirks" mode and DOCTY... (~Justin Minlute... 6.Jan.03)
. . . . RE: Browser "Quirks" mode and DOCTY... (~Emile Quetfoom... 31.Jan.03)
. . . . . . RE: Browser "Quirks" mode and DOCTY... (~Justin Minlute... 31.Jan.03)
. . RE: Browser "Quirks" mode and DOCTY... (~Nicole Umboosi... 31.Jan.03)
. . . . RE: Browser "Quirks" mode and DOCTY... (~Delores Dwonic... 5.Jun.04)





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